Telegraph exclusive: NICK CLEGG DEFECTS
Ever since the coalition government was formed, political commentators and Labour hacks have been falling over themselves to suggest that it is only a matter of time until Nick Clegg defects to the...
View ArticleNick Clegg in his own words – a different view
I used wordle.net to provide a different view of Nick Clegg’s closing speech to the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference. Related posts: Telegraph exclusive: NICK CLEGG DEFECTS Nick Clegg could make good...
View ArticleIs this the most misleading bar chart ever?
There are always disagreements between parties about the use of bar charts on leaflets. I don’t tend to use them very much on my leaflets, foir a variety of reasons, but I follow the debates about...
View ArticleWeekend bake: Coffee and walnut cake
About once a month I volunteer at the Heart for Abbots Langley coffee morning. My coffee and walnut sponge has become a great favourite amongst the mainly elderly clientele and I am now asked to make...
View ArticlePlaying the blame game won’t save children’s lives
As a small child, I lived about a mile away from where Baby P, or Peter Connelly as we were later to know him, lived and died. Just a small distance, but miles away in many ways, as my family home was...
View ArticlePants to paedophiles preferring pleats
Today’s Daily Mail caries a story bizarre even by that publication’s usual standards. So bizarre that I was not prepared to believe it until I had obtained verification from another source. But it is...
View ArticleWeekend bake: scones
I may have jinxed today’s weather by planning to post my scones recipe. But we have just had some glorious weather, with the promnise of more to come. So here is my recipe – just remember to put the...
View ArticleHow the Daily Mail puts the ‘s’ into hit journalism
Let’s face it: no one does faux outrage better than the Daily Mail. The paper and its readers get outraged so often over so little that I wonder whether they have any energy or time left to get on...
View ArticleLib Dem peer is ‘mad, not promiscuous’
My fourteen year old daughter was reading the latest copy of Liberator magazine, when she came across Lord Bonkers’ Diary. On reading the title, she pounced with zeal on what she believed to be a...
View ArticleSeek, locate, triangulate: The hypocrisy of Ed Miliband
Many years ago, in the days when Dr Who made some sense and was played by the masterful (sic) talents of David Tennant, my daughter was the proud owner of a two foot high remote control Dalek. As it...
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